EligibilityThose eligible to vote in this poll are:-Users with accounts created before March 11, 2008-Users who are not using Cyrillic language services (there is a poll for Cyrillic users at lj_election_ru)-Users who have accounts with validated email addresses

VotingUsers should select their first choice, second choice, and third choice candidates from the drop-down list.

Determining the winnerThe poll will be closed at 9:00 p.m. PDT Thursday, May 29, 2008-If a user has more than 50% of the first-choice vote, that candidate will be declared the winner-If no user has more than 50% of the first-choice vote, we will begin using an Instant Runoff process. The user with the lowest tally for first-choice vote will be eliminated, and the second choice candidate on those ballots will be substituted as first choice. This process will continue (drop lowest candidate, reassign to next vote, tally again) until any user has more than 50% of the vote.-If all ballots are exhausted and no candidate has more than 50% of the vote, we will return to the first round and award the election to the candidate with the most 1st choice votes.

Member TermThe new Advisory Board member will be announced by the end of the day on Friday, May 30, 2008 and will begin their one-year term of service on June 1, 2008.

Feels very passive aggressive on my own end, but strangely satisfying.

You are probably suffering from what is a fairly common syndrome these days: Outrage Fatigue. The endless monstrousness of the last eight years have simply overloaded those of us who Pay Attention. And so, being humans, Someone Must Pay.

In my case, Jameth and his crew won that election right out of the gate and entirely through their own efforts. lol

He is smart, but I do not think he can focus this particular group, or at least not most of them, on anything beyond these semi-salon 'lulz' ops.

If he got truly serious about something, he could do Great Things, but I suspect many of his present group would drop away, though he seems charismatic enough to replace them.